South Carolina PTA’s mission, values, and purpose guide our commitment to advocating for every child and supporting families, schools, and communities. Learn more about the principles that shape our work and our vision for the future.
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mission
Our organization is dedicated to ensuring that every child's potential is a reality by engaging and empowering families and communities to advocate for all children.
Values
Collaboration: We work in partnership with a wide array of individuals and organizations to accomplish our agreed-upon goals.
Commitment: We are dedicated to promoting children’s health, well-being, and educational success through strong parent, family, and community involvement.
Accountability: We acknowledge our obligations. We deliver on our promises.
Respect: We value our colleagues and ourselves. We expect the same high quality of effort and thought from ourselves as we do from others.
Inclusivity: We invite the stranger and welcome the newcomer. We value and seek input from as wide a spectrum of viewpoints and experiences as possible.
Integrity: We act consistently with our beliefs. When we err, we acknowledge the mistake and seek to make amends.
purpose
To promote the welfare of children and youth in the home, school, community, and place of worship;
To raise the standards of home life;
To secure adequate laws for the care and protection of children and youth;
To bring into closer relation the home and the school, that parents and teachers may cooperate intelligently in the education of the children and youth;
To develop between educators and the general public such united efforts will secure for all children and youth the highest advantages in physical, mental, social, and spiritual education.